celebrated
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
See famous.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of celebrated
Explanation
If something is celebrated, it's famous. Your town's celebrated restaurant — the one everybody knows and talks about — might be a modest barbecue joint. A celebrated writer is an important, well-known one, like Ernest Hemingway or Maya Angelou. In your family, a celebrated figure might be the cousin who visits every summer and tells the best stories. As long as someone is talked about and revered by a group of people, they're celebrated. This adjective comes from the verb celebrate and its Latin root celebrare, "to sing praises of."
Vocabulary lists containing celebrated
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Example Sentences
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, donning a yellow safety vest and goggles, celebrated a ribbon-cutting at a once-imperiled factory this week in Lansing, Mich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Naugle, who celebrated his birthday two weeks earlier, remains in the South Placer County Jail in Roseville.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Smith also implied that instead of being hammered by the NABJ, he should be celebrated because he is about to be inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cambridge had celebrated Arday's appointment as a young black professor, one of a tiny and visible minority in academia.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Junior Championship the previous summer, but above all, he’d begun to have increased confidence in himself after his celebrated “Game of the Century.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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